Workman Jr. is an American analytical spectroscopist, author, editor, and inventor born on August 6, 1952, in Northfield, Minnesota.

At MIT Sloan School of Management he did further studies for a Certificate in Strategy and Innovation.

[11][12][13] Workman has held appointments with the U.S. National Academies NRC panel for Assessment of NIST Programs from 2005 to 2007 and was given the U.S. Department of Commerce Certificate of Appreciation in 2007.

[citation needed] He was a Charter Member of U.S. Food and Drug Administration PAT and Chemometrics Committee in 2002.

[21][22] He, along with co-author Howard L. Mark, have published over 150 successive columns on statistics and chemometrics for Spectroscopy Magazine since 1986.